My husband's grandmother was Emelia, although she went by Amy most of the time. So its not a made up spelling (or it was made about 90 years ago )

I love names from that era and it totally makes me smile to hear that was your grandma's name. My dd's name is Anna and I've had multiple people tell me that was their grandma or great-grandmas name. Our boys all have similarly old fashioned names.

Ok so I think DH wins then. I thought it sounded made up even though I love any of the variations I mentioned. I don't mind an "E" sound at the beginning as I don't think it makes it that much of a change in the name. DH said it counts as a name as long as it has an established history and isn't some random mispelling trying to look unique.